2:04 AM,
Mar. 15, 2013

The control tower at the Smyrna Airport is operated by Manassas, Va.-based Robinson Aviation.

Written by

G. Chambers Williams III
| The Tennessean

Smyrna Airport officials say they should hear next Friday whether the FAA will close the facility's air traffic control tower because of the sequester federal budget cuts.

A decision was expected Monday, but the FAA said it will wait five more days to give itself time to review letters from the 189 airports where private contract control towers are in danger of being closed.

In addition, a bill pending in the U.S. Senate could give endangered towers nationwide a reprieve. ...